Word: edward
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...Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and the University's chief labor negotiator, said yesterday that Harvard's initial wage increase offer will be "something less than 15 percent." He declined to comment further on the University's bargaining positions...
...Democrats' attack on the defense budget was even harsher. Senator Edward Kennedy badgered Weinberger to say whether America's armed forces could defend the U.S. When Weinberger replied that the country's current power to deter attack is not "sufficient," the Massachusetts Senator declared, "You are the first Secretary of Defense to appear and say we are unprepared and vulnerable." Weinberger told Kennedy: "You still have a propensity not to listen." The Democratic barrage culminated when Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan called Weinberger "an ideologue" and "a fanatic" who was "damaging the national defense." Weinberger labeled Riegle...
Issuing a series of nuclear arms proposals designed to appeal to a foreign audience, Andropov has effectively revived the Soviet propaganda offensive against the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe. So skillful has Andropov's performance been that General Edward Rowny, the U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva, has jested that the West is being subjected to "trial by Yuri...
...that even Andropov could request the same kinds of declassified information as any American. Says Edward J. O'Malley, assistant FBI director in charge of the bureau's intelligence division: "This is a problem inherent in an open society and it is not our place to draw the line...
...metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal: "It was a pretty sorry spectacle that gave American business a black...